KROK 1 2017 – Question 33 · KROK (Medicine) · Biology
Exposure to colchicine resulted in metaphase plate of a human containing 23 chromosomes more than it is normal. Name this mutation:
- A. Translocation
- B. Inversion
- C. Polyteny
- D. Aneuploidy
- E. Polyploidy
Hint
Add the extra number to the normal diploid count and ask whether the result is a whole multiple of the basic chromosome set, and how a spindle poison could produce it.
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